christine romans is with us. erin burnet is with us as well. she's host of "out front." and host of cnn's state of the union, candy crowley. ali velshi is in ohio this morning. john berman, anchor of "early start" sticks around. president of americans for tax reform, joining us this morning. nice to have all of you. i want to welcome our national viewers who are joining us as well this morning. lots to get to. half an hour away from the most important report. i don't think that's overstating it, right? >> this will show what the biggest labor market, the biggest economy in the world is doing and what the expectation is from 13 economists, 7.9% unemployment rate would be up slightly and 125,000 jobs added. the trend is what's really important to watch here. this is the trend for the unemployment rate. back in january 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8%. that's when the president took office. we had a stimulus. we had an unemployment rate that still went to 10%. now it's been coming down and it's back down at 7.8%. there's psychology in these numbers that is important her